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N. V. RANDOLPH. Cigarette Paper Package.

No. 238,966.- V Patented Ma rchi5, l88l..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NORMAN V. RANDOLPH, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

CIGARETTE-PAPER PAC KAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 238,966, dated March 15, 1881.

Application filed September as, 1880. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN V. RANDOLPH, of Richmond, in the State of Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Paper Packages, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to cigarette-papers, which are usually put up in small books, cases, or packages, each containing a number of sheets of the texture, size, and shape required for cigarette-paper.

The invention consists in a cigarette-paper package as a new article of manufacture, consisting of a wrapper or case containing sheets of cigarette-paper, each of which is on one face gummed along one of its longer edges, so that after the cigarette is rolled this edge, which comes outermost, will, when moistened, be in condition to firmly adhere to the body of the cigarette.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of package of cigarette-papers made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a single cigarette-paper, and Fig. 3 a rolled cigarette.

A is the case or wrapper; B, the cigarette-- papers. Each sheet B is, on one face only, and

along one of its longer edges, gummed, as indicated at a, the line of gum or other proper adhesive substance being very narrow, so that said substance may not be in sufficient quantity to be noticeable to the taste of the smoker.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a cigarettepaper package containing a number of sheets i 

